beauty

I am just returning home from a week away at my second residency - like literally just got home an hour ago from a midnight flight and I know I really need to sleep.  But my heart is overwhelmed and although I’m physically exhausted, sleep is being held off as I recollect my week. My heart is SO full from the experiences I had, I hardly have words.  I will write more after I have processed it all.  But for now, here is a song that touched my heart deeply this week as I was surrounded by beauty in every direction - beauty in forest walks, beauty in frozen lakes, beauty in snow gently falling, beauty in God’s sweet presence, beauty in conversations, beauty in others walking this path alongside me, beauty in tears, beauty in laughter, beauty in play, beauty in worship, beauty in thankful gratitude for the generous glimpses of eternity that we are gifted with on this side of heaven.

A beautiful song:
Why Do We Hunger for Beauty?

View from my room at the residency

Lyrics:

Dark are the branches reaching for light
High is the path of the hawk in its flight
Turning and gliding greeting the night
Why do we hunger for beauty?

Moon hanging lonely there in the sky
Looking so holy; a host held up high
Off in the distance train going by
Why does it move us cause us to sigh
Why do we hunger for beauty?

Frost on the window never the same
So many patterns fit in the frame
Captured in motion frozen in flame
And in the patterns is there a Name
Why do we hunger for beauty?
Why do we hunger for beauty?